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A LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like me, you used to write while baking bread
Last Line: I take from you as you take me apart
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


AFTER THE POETRY READING; FOR MARIE HOWE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If emily dickinson lived in the 1990's
Last Line: Her fly buzzes me all the way home
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry Readings


ALTITUDES, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look up into the dome: / it is a great salon, a brilliant place
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


ALTITUDES, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look up into the dome: %it is a great salon, a brilliant place
Last Line: To pace abut his garden, lost in thought
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


AMHERST WITH FRIES, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the bored cashier at burger king
Last Line: As a line forms all day in front of her
Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Restaurants


AMHERST: MAY 15, 1987, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The oriole, a charred and singing coal
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


AMHERST: MAY 15, 1987, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The oriole, a charred and singing coal
Last Line: By bloodshed on iwo jima, in leyte gulf and belleau wood
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


AMHERST: ONE DAY, FIVE POETS: 2, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cupola is a windowed cage
Last Line: She wanted to know %if her poems breathed
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


BALLAD OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the women who, entre deux guerres
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906); Blues (music); Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899); Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954); De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Eleanor Of A


BALLAD OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the women who, entre deux guerres
Last Line: And truncated a woman's chronicle, %and plain old margaret fuller died as well
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906); Blues (music); Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899); Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954); De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Eleanor Of A


BECAUSE I COULD NOT DUMP, by ANDREA PATERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because I could not dump the trash
Last Line: And hoped joe'd come my way
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


BETWEEN THE LINES, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You, alive, seldom put yourself
Last Line: Containedly, between the lines
Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


CALLED BACK', by ROBERT B. SHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: We came -- a century or so
Last Line: Your postscript to the world declares %how potent absence is
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


CIRCA 1861, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother? I'm here again to freshen the water - lots
Subject(s): :dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Radio


COMMENT ON THIS: IN THE REAL SCHEME OF THINGS, POETRY IS MARGINAL, by RICHARD JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things - / the empty wine bottle under the bed
Last Line: "I'm nobody,"" she spoke for us all."
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


COMPLAYNT; AFTER EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm wanton - no I've stopped that
Last Line: Continue!
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form; Mothers


DAY OF EMILY DICKINSON'S FUNERAL, by MARION BUCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. Higginson came
Last Line: Into her hands %to greet god with
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


DECONSTRUCTION OF EMILY DICKINSON, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lecture had ended when I came in
Last Line: After all that humbug. But she was silent
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


DEDICATION FOR A PLOT OF GROUND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: This plot of ground
Last Line: But your carcass, keep out.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


DESIRE, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It doesn't speak and it isn't schooled
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form


DESIRE, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It doesn't speak and it isn't schooled
Last Line: Deeper than the brain's detail; the drive to feel
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form


DICKINSON, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the lives I cannot live
Last Line: Not over, but upon
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form


DICKINSON, BISHOP, AND STEIN, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When stein spoke of roses she said it was
Last Line: Confound our simple grasp
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)


EMILY, by PETER NICHOLSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now the bride of poetry beckons
Last Line: Yet ours, at the end, your perfection
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On that page where the whole world moved
Last Line: Where the right word again begins time
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by MELVILLE CANE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Inclosed withing a hedge
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %emily dickinson
Last Line: Send for the cops
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Writing And Writers


EMILY DICKINSON, by LUCHA CORPI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like you, I belong to yesterday
Last Line: Workers in search of %floating gardens as yet %unsown, as yet unharvested
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He saw a laughing girl
Last Line: In a long, in a wind-drawn sigh
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by PAUL HAMILTON ENGLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Demonic yankee who could taste
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry And Poets


EMILY DICKINSON, by MAE WINKLER GOODMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She spoke the dialect of birds
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by INGER HAGERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Very spindly. Very little
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I, the easy one, was hurt
Last Line: Save that sweet witch who knew at once %my idiom of pain
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by PATRICIA Y. IKEDA    Poem Source                    
First Line: She being too much for life the rare person with no need to travel the
Last Line: That intense sweetness is bitter that white fire frost
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by MAGGIE (ARONOFF) JAFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One of the few women
Last Line: 15 (dead) white men & emily. %shoot the canon!
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Emily dickinson, I think of you
Last Line: Gradual as flowers, gradual as rust
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We think of her hidden in a white dress
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We think of her hidden in a white dress
Last Line: Of vision, the serious mischief %of language, the economy of pain
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by GARY SMITH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: I've defended you against the many
Last Line: You would have discovered copper within
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON AND GERARD MANELY HOPKINS, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My notebook shows they took a formal cruise,
Last Line: Was warped for good. I am the living proof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Variant Title(s): Emily Dickinson And Gerard Manley Hopkins
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Heritage; Heredity


EMILY DICKINSON AND KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emily dickson's father yanked on the baptist bell
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Baptists; Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980)


EMILY DICKINSON AT COLEVILLE, by HAROLD WITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We never know how high we are, I said
Last Line: Hoping my heightened cubits wouldn't warp
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON AT COLEVILLE, by HAROLD VERNON WITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We never know how high we are, I said
Last Line: I sat there quoting her on a rocky slope, %hoping my heightened cubits wouldn't warp
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON ATTENDS A WRITING WORKSHOP, by JAYNE RELAFORD BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why plural? %and why all the caps? %(- and dashes?
Last Line: I'd like to see you bring this %through workshop again
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON IN BOSTON, 1864-65, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: That daguerreotype, with its strabismic gaze
Last Line: It's dislocated fear I sense -- a blur -- and hurry on
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry And Poets


EMILY DICKINSON IN HELL, by PETER MEINKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How flat - as a democracy
Last Line: To find my father - there
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON IN LOVE, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When sue walked in and saw them
Last Line: Before she wakes up and discovers it's her own
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON IN LOVE, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When sue walked in and saw them
Last Line: So sweet, so thick, it was almost overwhelming
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I called one day - on eden's strand
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON LEAVES A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD, NOW THAT HER HOMESTEAD, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I could not stop for breath
Last Line: Was seldom home - to me
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON READING WALT WHITMAN, by BERNARD LEVI ST. ARMAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heard he was disgraceful, and he is!
Last Line: He did not take and burn it afterwards
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S ANKLE, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shitfaced at deer camp
Last Line: Distant, tideless %landscape
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S DEFUNCT, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She used to / pack poems
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S DEFUNCT, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She used to %pack poems
Last Line: And buzzed %when she died
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S MIRROR, AMHERST, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its flecked surface a map of disappearing islands
Last Line: Share wholly. The purist's god. Pride's mirror and island
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S MIRROR, AMHERST, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its flecked surface a map of disappearing islands
Last Line: Share wholly. The purist's god. Pride's mirror and island
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S ROOM, MAIN STREET, AMHERST, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down through the cross of her windows
Last Line: And locked into place by ice
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S SESTINA FOR MOLLY BLOOM, by BARBARA F. LEFCOWITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: At times I almost believed it: madness
Last Line: Yes, and my heart going like mad and yes saying yes I will yes!
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S TO-DO LIST: SUM-SUM-SUMMERTIME, by ANDREA CARLISLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monday: figure out what to wear - white dress?
Last Line: Water flowers on windowsill %hide everything
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S WRITING TABLE IN HER BEDROOM AT THE HOMESTEAD, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chair next to her writing table
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S WRITING TABLE IN HER BEDROOM AT THE HOMESTEAD, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chair next to her writing table
Last Line: Out of that house, it would have to come from me
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, BISMARCK AND THE ROADRUNNER'S INQUIRY, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never thought for a moment
Last Line: I would go ahead and do this %without hint or indication %you would accept me, %dear emily
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY IN CHOIR, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Emily holds her father's hand; %she dances in place
Last Line: And of the butterfly - %and of the breeze - amen!
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY'S BREAD, by SANDRA M. GILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the prize-winning blue-ribbon loaf of bread
Last Line: They long to eat the green old meadow %where they used to live
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY'S GOLD, by KATHERINE SONIAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long ago is a processed, sticky amber
Last Line: Peering at a scribbled recipe
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY'S WORDS, by LESLIE MONSOUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unsquandered, sure and quiet as a root
Last Line: The coffin was astonishingly small
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form


EVERGREENS, by WILLIAM DORESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: About to suffer restoration
Last Line: Happy at last in the grave
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Home


FEATHERED FRIENDS, by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A splendid fellow in the grass
Last Line: And quivering with cold
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


FOR EMILY (DICKINSON), by MAUREEN OWEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The girl - working the xerox in the stationery store
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Popular Culture - United States


FOR EMILY (DICKINSON), by MAUREEN OWEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The girl - working the xerox in the stationery store
Last Line: I knew you - when you %still had hair!
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Popular Culture - United States


FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by MARIANNE BORUCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I stood for a moment
Last Line: There were seven. I lookep us, %too amazed to tell her
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by HORTENSE LAUDAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gates were triple adamant
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


FROWNING AT EMILY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The entire room was frowning at emily
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


FROWNING AT EMILY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The entire room was frowning at emily
Last Line: But hell, we're grateful for whatever comes, aren't we
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


GIVE ME SHOOTS, YOU SAID, by SIV CEDERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I were a monk of some other age, or nun
Last Line: Give me shoots,' you said, 'from your gardens.'
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


HALF-CRACKED POETESS', by JOYCE CAROL OATES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On my finger an antique ring I hadn't
Last Line: Except, what is it seeing? - and why?
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


HD/ED, by AIFE MURRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hd and I arrived in new haven the same year: I came directly from
Last Line: Entering me. 'their breath was your gift.'
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


HOMAGE TO DICKINSON, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've never longed for the annulments of heaven
Last Line: Tomb, my own woman. Finally. And forever
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Homage & Respect


HOMAGE TO DICKINSON, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've never longed for the annulments of heaven
Last Line: I would be alone, alone, in my maidenly %tomb, my own woman. Finally. And forever
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


HOPE IS THE THING WITH WHISKERS (AFTER DICKINSON), by DAVID SHEVIN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


HOUSES OF EMILY DICKINSON, by LARRY RUBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is, of course, the wrong house
Last Line: All houses, for her, it seems, are right
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


I AM IN DANGER - SIR -', by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half-cracked' to higginson, living
Last Line: Chose to have it out at last %on your own premises
Variant Title(s): 'i Am In Danger - Sir - '; "i Am In Danger-sir-
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


IMPOSSIBLE MARRIAGE, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bride disappears. After twenty minutes of searching
Last Line: Anchoret of amherst! O reticent kosmos of brooklyn!
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


IN AND COME IN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stupid? Of course that older lot were stupid
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


IN AND COME IN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stupid? Of course that older lot were stupid
Last Line: And yet there's something does know in that poem
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


IN THE FLESH, by LEE MCCARTHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am tired of males swearing undying love for emily dickinson
Last Line: The last one hangs by a thread. %her ears weren't pierced, he says
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


INSTANCES, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walt whitman took the earth to bed
Last Line: Poets are mad. Are bankers sane?
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950); Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


LEPIDOPTERAN, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning a steady drizzle, forsythia
Last Line: Of silver coins, a butterfly extinguished in the sea
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Hull, Lynda (1954-1994)


LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like me, you used to write while baking bread
Last Line: I take from you, as you take me apart
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


LETTER TO MISS DICKINSON, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I awoke this morning far from amherst
Last Line: Your tongue iams of passion %and statuary stone
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


LETTERS TO DEAD IMAGISTS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emily dickinson
Last Line: Nor the mumblings and shots that rise from dreams on call.
Subject(s): Crane, Stephen (1871-1900); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


LINES WRITTEN AT COLUMBIA, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky was like a blue blackboard from which
Subject(s): Memory; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


LITHOGRAPH OF AMHERST, by LYNN STRONGIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The calm ribbon of air %is %a lost language lesson
Last Line: The shining black inkwell. Then moved on
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


LOVE POEM FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by BRUCE MEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamt of your black house
Last Line: And kiss in the mortified land
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


MATRIARCHLY, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gave this part away from me
Last Line: To bring it on again
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Mothers; Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers


MISS EMILY'S MAGGIE' REMEMBERS, by JEAN BALDERSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: But sure she saw the sea
Last Line: The breakers in her head
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


MORNING AFTER, by MARK VINZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunday morning, blues on the radio
Last Line: And all the house is fast asleep
Variant Title(s): Lost And Foun
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Travel


MOST EMILY OF ALL, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you dream wood I dream water
Last Line: Till my clove-brown eyes begot a taller blue
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


MOST SENSUAL OF RECLUSES, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Were hesitant to address letters in your own hand
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: WONDER BREAD, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What eucharist of air and bland
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: WONDER BREAD, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What eucharist of air and bland
Last Line: What - does not console?
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


NOT TO FORGET MISS DICKINSON, by MARSHALL SCHACHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flavor the speaking of this one
Last Line: Of singing in a room beleagured %up to its sills by the gnawing fact
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


OF WOMEN WHO WEAR WHITE, by ALICE R. FRIMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a farm girl %practicing ballet
Last Line: The world's black needle %wobbling to north %would turn pearl to find
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


PALLBEARERS AT EMILY DICKINSON'S FUNERAL, by DANIEL TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She died at sunset facing west
Last Line: And resurrection's skiffs embark %at dew's velocity
Subject(s): Death; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Funerals


PATH BETWEEN HOUSES, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some nights there is a lamp burning when the house next door is
Last Line: Betrayal in your own stiff heart
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY DICKINSON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Last Line: That wouldn't happen to him, and we happily kissed
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY DICKINSON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Last Line: Not to worry, honey, %that wouldn't happen to him, and we happily kissed
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There are the countless, returning new england widows
Last Line: With alabaster. And suffer affliction like an insect.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Habits; New England; Widows & Widowers


QUEEN RECLUSE, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: If, then, the moon would be a good place to place the jews
Last Line: Moors with metronomes of prayer. Earthly lesion, parish of my home
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


SENSING DUNCAN, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you know this poem by emily dickinson? Asked
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Mothers


SISTERS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot
Last Line: Well, never mind that now. Good night! Good night!
Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


SITTING WITH MYSELF IN THE SETON HALL DELI AT 12 O'CLOCK THURSDAY, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I read with them, when I hear them
Last Line: All these various voices?
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


SITTING WITH MYSELF IN THE SETON HALL DELI AT 12 O'CLOCK THURSDAY, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I read with them, when I hear them
Last Line: I wish we could hear all the writings from people's notebooks
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


SNOW CRAZY COPYBOOK, SELS., by JAMES HAZARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lying in the dark, breathing slow, my chest growing with every breath
Last Line: Nothing in this life is too slow for me
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Love


SOME CALL IT CHILDHOOD: 1. TWICE ALIVE: DETROIT; THE SECRET..., by PETER COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not yet the blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz
Last Line: The windows failing-oh the wonder!-of her dying
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Sisters; Survival


SPELUNKING, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our flames reach very short
Last Line: The moving beam glistens %on emily's white dress
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


STILL LIFE WITH RIDDLE, by THOMAS (TOM) WAYNE KOONTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's something there behind the light blue-bottled
Last Line: For a bell. Sustains the chord with white. Now drops the I
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TAKING OFF EMILY DICKINSON'S CLOTHES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, her tippet made of tulle
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Love - Erotic; Love


TAKING OFF EMILY DICKINSON'S CLOTHES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, her tippet made of tulle
Last Line: That looks right at you with a yellow eye
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Erotic Love; Love


TEACHING EMILY DICKINSON, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What starts as one more monday morning class
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TEACHING EMILY DICKINSON, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What starts as one more monday morning class
Last Line: Opens its wings. They spread. They cover us: %myraid lives foreshortened into word
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


THE DECONSTRUCTION OF EMILY DICKINSON, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lecture had ended when I came in
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


THE IMPOSSIBLE MARRIAGE, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bride disappears. After twenty minutes of searching
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


THE MYSTERY OF EMILY DICKINSON, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes the weather goes on for days
Last Line: Unless there was time, and eternity's plenty.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Women


THE SISTERS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot
Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


THE UNNAMING, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She walked through the house, taking away its names
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


THERE'S BEEN A DEATH IN THE OPPOSITE HOUSE', by JEANIE THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On my back porch, jesse and david
Subject(s): Death; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


THREE EMILYS, by DOROTHY LIVESAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These women crying in my head
Last Line: I am the one %uncomforted
Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Carr, Emily (1871-1945); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Paintings And Painters; Writing And Writers


TO DICKINSON, by DIANE WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seriously and politely I tell the story to persons of the loss of you
Last Line: Way - you may be the best person who has ever lived
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARY BOWEN BRAINERD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A harp aeolian, on a lonely sill
Last Line: Yet bearing ever nature's sad refrain.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who desire so much - in vain to ask
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who desire so much - in vain to ask
Last Line: Leaves ormus rubyless, and ophir chill. %else tears heap all within one clay-cold hill
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by JOYCE LANCASTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crispy %fragrant petals
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear emily, my tears would burn your page,
Last Line: In that hard argument which led to god
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear emily, my tears would burn your page,
Last Line: In that hard argument which led to god.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TRIBUTE, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When there are no words left to live
Last Line: Not over, but upon
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TRIBUTE, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When there are no words left to live
Last Line: Not over, but upon
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TWO GHOSTS, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amherst. Dark hemlocks conspiring at the first church midway
Last Line: R: 'after great pain -' %e: oh! %r: emily? Emily!
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


UNNAMING, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She walked through the house, taking away its names
Last Line: Appallingly blank, waiting to be renamed
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


UPPER STORY, by MARY JO SALTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As emily dickinson %would not come down, I'm
Last Line: As if that buzzing, when she died, %were here still amplified
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


VERMONT SUMMER, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking this morning through the forest
Last Line: Yours was the harvest of small mysteries
Variant Title(s): Thinking Of Emily Dickinson At Bread Loaf, Vermon
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


VISITING EMILY DICKINSON, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We stood in the cupola for a while
Last Line: Voices starting to drift up from downstairs, %somebody calling my name
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE, by LEO CONNELLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where else would we go first in amherst
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE WITH ROBERT FRANCIS, by ROBERT BLY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robert francis has moved, since his stroke, into town, and he takes
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Francis, Robert (1901-1987)


VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE WITH ROBERT FRANCIS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black iron fence closes the graves in
Last Line: And we clamber out of sleep, holding on to it with our hands
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Francis, Robert (1901-1987)


VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE WITH ROBERT FRANCIS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robert francis has moved, since his stroke, into town, and he takes
Last Line: Us?...For this I have abandoned all my other lives.'
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


WHEN I READ A REVIEW OF THE JOHN TRAVOLTA FILM, MICHAEL, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And that emily dickinson once said %that hope is a thing with feathers but
Last Line: Been more real to emily than any litany, %any psalms or hymns
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


WHO GOES TO DINE MUST TAKE HIS FEAST', by DAVID GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The way a horse knows
Last Line: In this landmark of my arrival
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


WITH APOLOGIES TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARLA J. STURDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did the harebell loose her girdle
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


WOMEN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION: 2, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're deep in the hills, in the noon sun, when we come
Last Line: Of the white election 
Variant Title(s): A Book Of Days: 6 Dickinso
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


WOMEN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION: 2, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're deep in the hills, in the noon sun, when we come
Last Line: And opposition's %complement is opposition still
Variant Title(s): A Book Of Days 6; Dickinso
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


YOUR BIRTHDAY IN WISCONSIN YOU ARE 140, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of the wits of the school' your chum would say
Last Line: Hot diggity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


YOUR BIRTHDAY IN WISCONSIN YOU ARE 140, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of the wits of the school' your chum would say
Last Line: And yours & yours & yours! %hot diggity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)